Submarine-launched ballistic missile/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Submarine-launched ballistic missile.

A ballistic missile launched from a normally submerged submarine, which has multiple engineering challenges, chief among them being computing a correct ballistic trajectory from a varying point of launch (POL)